I think alsa offers lower latency/jitter over OSS, hence why it was popular.

It's sad to see OSS gone completely now I think about it, with alsa misconfiguring drivers every time a hdmi capable device is being used. I also remember not needing many userland tools to use it, so it had that going for it too. Mostly hindsight though because I didn't think to question things then.


On Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:57 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:52:31 -0500
> Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
>
>
>> Also, if you go with OSS, you need neither xfce4-volumed, nor
>> xfce4-mixer, because:
>> - OSS has its own mixer;
>> - volume keys can be configured to be used with it.
>>
>> Frankly, I don't understand, why Open Sound System
>> option is marked DEPRECATED in menuconfig.
>
> Once in my life I managed to install an OSS-only Linux, on
> Manjaro-OpenRC alt-initted with Runit. No Pulse, no ALSA. It was a thing
> of beauty: The simplicity was breathtaking. And yet it played Youtube
> videos just fine.
>
> I had to "modprobe snd_mixer_oss" in /etc/runit/1, and because almost
> every volume control depends on either Pulse or ALSA or both, I had to
> install rexima (I think aumix might work too) as a volume control.
>
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